[IPython-dev] making pdoc, pdef, and pinfo more generally useful (Was Re: Patches to use pydb instead of pdb for debugging)

[R. Bernstein]

Ville M. Vainio writes:
  ...
 > Yeah, a lot has been happening this last week (some of which I am only
 > able to speak properly next week, but might involve much more python
 > coding in my day job) and I haven't tested pydb yet. Sorry :-).
  .. 
 > They are in the wrong place, yes, but such refactoring may not be
 > optimal for the "stable" branch. Instead, I'd like to see your patches
 > for kludging the _ofind, _inspect et. al. with optional 'namespaces'
 > keyword argument. I have no opposition to getting them in.
 > 
 > So send out patches for whatever you've got in your working copy
 > (preferably by friday) and I'll take a proper look at them.
 > 

By Friday? Gee, that doesn't leave much time, so I'll send what I have
now. Let's see, a summary of the patches. First there's what I sent
before and in private email I sent a slight code improvement on that.

In that we allowed "%pdb on" and -pdb and pm to call pydb if that's
installed and Python 2.5

Above this there's 

- decorating do_up, do_down so they get the
  docstrings from pydb (there are none in pdb so it's a no op). Also 
  do_frame decorated, but again in pdb there's no "frame" command. 

- Changing the list command so that it accepts pydb/gdb syntax by decoupling
  the parsing part from the listing part

- Allowing magic_pinfo, magic_pdef, and magic_pdoc to be used inside the
  debugger. 

- There's some stuff using command pydb's completion, and this helps a
  little but private email with Alexander Schmolc suggests there may
  be some stygian stable work in (re)doing the issue of making command
  completion work correctly.

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